Senior Technical Animator - Rigging Mastery & Pipelines

People Can Fly Studio; Montreal; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance package

RRSP matching

Winter holidays week off

Vacation days

Sick days

Well-being sessions

Professional development

Global environment

Job summary

People Can Fly is seeking a Senior Technical Animator in Montreal to lead rigging and pipeline work for our AAA projects. You will create high-quality characters, creatures and props rigging, implement Maya-based solutions, and collaborate with modelers and animators to maintain a smooth production flow.

The role requires 5+ years in Technical Animation, expertise in Maya and Houdini, strong Python scripting, and excellent English communication.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Technical Animation or similar.
• Involved in the production cycle of at least 2 titles.
• Strong experience with Python code.
• Knowledge of Houdini.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly provide technical feedback into the tasks, rigs, toolsets and documentation.
• Expert knowledge of Maya, specializing in rigging/skinning.
• Expert understanding of anatomy and character movement.
• Knowledge of facial rigs for games, television or film.
• Strong knowledge of topology requirements for old and new 3D models.
• Experience in physics simulation on cloth, hair and other physics items.
• Knowledge of current and future technology and trends in video games.
• Familiarity with Maya art export/production pipelines including notably character/animation related features.
• Self-motivation.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain the production and software pipeline and meet deadlines in collaboration with the Lead.
• Creating high quality characters, creatures and props rigging and skinning suitable technically to project the desired universe.
• Autonomously Implementing rigging for characters in Maya including cloth, physics and hair setups.
• Work closely with modelers and animators to ensure a smooth development pipeline that delivers high quality assets.
• Create new riggings
• Create retargeting systems/tools for old rigging to new rigging.
• Share ownership of pipeline tools and working with engine and project leads on continuous improvement of those engine tools.
• Support the team regarding the technical ownership of the team’s output in providing clean assets or code within established systems and requirements.
• Providing R&D projects, pipeline and workflow improvements and proceeding with post-mortems and its implementation.
• Tackle the most technically difficult bugfixing efforts.
• Sharing knowledge with less experienced peers.
• Occasionally support the team in recruitment projects with HR collaboration.
• Occasionally support new hires onboarding process.

Skills

Strong communication

English (verbal & written)

Self-motivation

Team collaboration

Tools

Maya

Houdini

Python

Job description

People Can Fly is seeking a Senior Technical Animator in Montreal to lead rigging and pipeline work for our AAA projects. You will create high-quality characters, creatures and props rigging, implement Maya-based solutions, and collaborate with modelers and animators to maintain a smooth production flow.

The role requires 5+ years in Technical Animation, expertise in Maya and Houdini, strong Python scripting, and excellent English communication.